솔 펄머터

소개

솔 펄머터(영어: Saul Perlmutter, 1959년 9월 22일 ~ )은 미국의 천문학자이다. 브라이언 슈밋·애덤 리스와 함께 초신성의 연구를 통하여 우주 팽창이 가속화됨을 발견하여 2011년 노벨 물리학상을 수상하였다. 저먼타운 프랜즈 스쿨을 졸업하고 1977년 하버드 대학교 물리학과에 입학하여 magna cum laude로 졸업하였다.

Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Since 2021, he has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).